Hi, I received a phone call today, lasted for almost 30 min, threatening with my son arrest if I do not pay today amount of $4,202.00 to his people he is sending to my door this afternoon.
Person introduces himself as officer Jordan Campbell, badge #8K2486, at Criminal Investigation Unit in Washington DC. He spoke with heavy pakistani/indian accent, and refused to provide any legal documentation, or reveal his local office address.
Only when I mentioned that I have to consult my legal advisor at Attorney General Office, he gave me 10 minutes, telling do not disconnect, and "the less people know about is better for you".
Why they still acting for so long, or no one is able to protect us people?
I got a call from this number, the caller could hardly speak English, sounded Indian or Pakistani. What I could understand was I was to call the number because there was some sort of fraud concerning my tax return. The IRS would have nailed me by now if that was the case so I just deleted the message. Obviously a crank call. The guy said his name was Steve Martin. Really.....
This a Pakistan or India based IRS scam. Do not fall for this.
Read http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/press/press_tigta-2014-03.htm
The IRS does not initiate any legal action via phone. Report it also to your local law enforcement agency. The scammers use voice over IP lines (e.g. magicjack (Ymax corporation)). This is against these companys' terms of use and can lead to termination of their contract. However only law enforcement can initiate the contact if you yourself are not a customer. Ultimately this is a case for the FBI legal attache in Islamabad or Delhi. If you are really annoyed: call or write to your representative in Congress. As these scams happen all over the country maybe this will trigger a reaction (and the NSA can finally be a force for good).
Hi, I received a phone call today, lasted for almost 30 min, threatening with my son arrest if I do not pay today amount of $4,202.00 to his people he is sending to my door this afternoon.
Person introduces himself as officer Jordan Campbell, badge #8K2486, at Criminal Investigation Unit in Washington DC. He spoke with heavy pakistani/indian accent, and refused to provide any legal documentation, or reveal his local office address.
Only when I mentioned that I have to consult my legal advisor at Attorney General Office, he gave me 10 minutes, telling do not disconnect, and "the less people know about is better for you".
Why they still acting for so long, or no one is able to protect us people?
They are located in India or Pakistan and are hard-core scammers. As such they are beyond the reach of US law. Indian government occasionally shuts down a call center, but they just spring up again.
Call blocker is your best bet. Don't answer calls you don't recognize.
This Indian/Pakistani guy called my son with some info on an old address I had and said I had some delinquent taxes. I told him my taxes were all in order and that this call sounded like a scam. The guy transferred me to his supervisor and after continuing to say they sounded full of $H!T the guy got all mad and said I have warrants and that he's gonna call my local sherrifs department and they are going to track down my cell phone within 45 minutes. I told them it's pretty unlikely my local cops are going to triangulate my cell phone coordinates because some guy with an accent says so and he got super pissed off and started swearing and saying rude things about my mother. I was pretty funny how bad I pissed these guys off. I reported the number they used to the US Treasury Dept who has a link on their website for this exact same scam. The called said his name was Mark Brown (should have been Habbib Brown) and that he was calling from the Crime Investigating unit of the US Treasury. Bunch of [***].